John Steppling

John Steppling

John Steppling (8 August 1870 in Essen, Germany – 5 April 1932 in Hollywood, California) was a German-American silent film actor. He moved to America at a young age and entered film in 1912 aged 42. He starred in a total of 230 films between then and 1928, beginning with one of the first feature films ever made, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. He is also credited with directing 7 films. He is the grandfather of playwright John Steppling.

  • Title: John Steppling
  • Popularity: 0.8103
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1870-08-08
  • Place of Birth: Essen, Germany
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  • Also Known As: John C. Steppling
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John Steppling Movies

  • 1918
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    The Road Through the Dark

    The Road Through the Dark

    1 1918 HD

    Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent...

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  • 1925
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    California Straight Ahead

    California Straight Ahead

    7 1925 HD

    Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.

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  • 1916
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    Miss Jackie of the Navy

    Miss Jackie of the Navy

    1 1916 HD

    All of the navy men in a California port town have fallen in love with Jackie Holbrook, except for Captain Robert Crowne. As a result, roused by the...

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  • 1920
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    The Heart of a Child

    The Heart of a Child

    1 1920 HD

    A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman.

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  • 1922
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    The Sin Flood

    The Sin Flood

    1 1922 HD

    Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks of the Mississippi, installs flood-proof...

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  • 1926
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    High Steppers

    High Steppers

    1 1926 HD

    Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he...

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  • 1919
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    Lombardi, Ltd.

    Lombardi, Ltd.

    1 1919 HD

    Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensation of credit to clients, one of whom, Max...

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  • 1914
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    Jim

    Jim

    1 1914 HD

    At the palatial home of a merchant the latter's wife entertains her husband's friends. The guests have all departed save one, the husband's most...

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  • 1922
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    Glass Houses

    Glass Houses

    1 1922 HD

    When a wealthy young lady loses her inheritance, she decides to apply for work in disguise. In prim and proper working girl attire she becomes the...

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  • 1917
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    The Promise

    The Promise

    1 1917 HD

    After an argument with his father, in which he is accused of stealing, Bill Carmody leaves home. His girlfriend Ethel is mad at him because of his...

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  • 1932
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    Broken Lullaby

    Broken Lullaby

    7.5 1932 HD

    A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each...

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  • 1924
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    The Fast Worker

    The Fast Worker

    1 1924 HD

    Roxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith, and their daughter. When Terry falls in love with...

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  • 2007
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    American dream

    American dream

    1 2007 HD

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  • 1924
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    A Cafe in Cairo

    A Cafe in Cairo

    1 1924 HD

    When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encampment, their young daughter is spared and brought...

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  • 1920
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    The Husband Hunter

    The Husband Hunter

    1 1920 HD

    Millionaire Kent Whitney is warned by Bob Harkness, one of her rejected suitors, about the fickleness of his girlfriend, socialite Myra Hastings....

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  • 1920
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    The County Fair

    The County Fair

    4.7 1920 HD

    "The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this...

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  • 1923
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    Bell Boy 13

    Bell Boy 13

    6 1923 HD

    Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde. He causes so...

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  • 1916
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    The Comet's Come-Back

    The Comet's Come-Back

    1 1916 HD

    The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the planet lazy and lethargic, and actually stops...

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  • 1915
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    Pretenses

    Pretenses

    1 1915 HD

    Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.

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  • 1921
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    The Silver Car

    The Silver Car

    1 1921 HD

    After serving in the Great War, international crook Anthony Trent resolves to go straight. He wants to track down the English private who saved his...

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  • 1918
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    Johanna Enlists

    Johanna Enlists

    5.813 1918 HD

    A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

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  • 1913
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    Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    1 1913 HD

    A peasant girl sent to make a claim on her family's ancestral home in England's Wessex is seduced and left with child by its current owner.

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  • 1923
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    Let's Go

    Let's Go

    7 1923 HD

    The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal.

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  • 1918
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    Good Night, Paul

    Good Night, Paul

    1 1918 HD

    Mrs. Richard is happily married, but still agrees to pose as the wife of a businessman to hoodwink the businessman's rich uncle. Unfortunately, uncle...

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  • 1923
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    Going Up

    Going Up

    1 1923 HD

    Going Up (1923)

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  • 1918
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    A Lady's Name

    A Lady's Name

    1 1918 HD

    Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas...

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  • 1917
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    A Bathtub Bandit

    A Bathtub Bandit

    5 1917 HD

    Bathtub movers on the job.

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  • 1926
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    Memory Lane

    Memory Lane

    1 1926 HD

    Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of...

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  • 1920
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    Madame Peacock

    Madame Peacock

    1 1920 HD

    Jane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the stage. Returning home from a performance one night, Jane...

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  • 1920
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    Billions

    Billions

    5 1920 HD

    Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of the arts. She falls in love with the verses...

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  • 1925
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    Soft Shoes

    Soft Shoes

    7 1925 HD

    Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, a cat burglar armed with pistol and...

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  • 1921
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    Black Beauty

    Black Beauty

    1 1921 HD

    Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventures of the humans who surround the horse.

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  • 1924
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    The Reckless Age

    The Reckless Age

    5 1924 HD

    Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick...

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  • 1926
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    The Better Man

    The Better Man

    1 1926 HD

    Lord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty American Nancy Burton from a brutal peddler. Interested...

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  • 1919
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    Luck in Pawn

    Luck in Pawn

    1 1919 HD

    Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her to go to the city so she can study. Annabel works...

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  • 1923
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    The Man Next Door

    The Man Next Door

    1 1923 HD

    The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge of popularity because his book The Covered Wagon...

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  • 1921
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    Nobody's Kid

    Nobody's Kid

    1 1921 HD

    Because of the circumstances of her parents' marriage her grandfather rejects their child, Mary. Following her their deaths she is placed in an...

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  • 1920
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    Sick Abed

    Sick Abed

    1 1920 HD

    When showing a woman customer some ranch property, real estate agent John Weems's car is disabled by a terrible storm, and he and his client are...

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  • 1913
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    Caprice

    Caprice

    1 1913 HD

    A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears...

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  • 1925
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    Eve's Lover

    Eve's Lover

    1 1925 HD

    Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can...

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  • 1924
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    The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

    The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

    1 1924 HD

    A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.

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  • 1928
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    Behind the Counter

    Behind the Counter

    7 1928 HD

    Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.

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  • 1913
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    Billy McGrath on Broadway

    Billy McGrath on Broadway

    5 1913 HD

    John Steppling is Billy McGrath in this popular series directed by Archer McMackin, of which this is the only existing example. Billy wants to be a...

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  • 1924
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    The Galloping Fish

    The Galloping Fish

    1 1924 HD

    Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new husband home alone. Seeking distraction from his...

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  • 1923
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    What a Wife Learned

    What a Wife Learned

    1 1923 HD

    A novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband.

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  • 1924
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    The Breathless Moment

    The Breathless Moment

    1 1924 HD

    Unwilling to arrest Billy Carson, a crook who once befriended him, Officer Quinn forces him and Dan, his confederate, to spend a year in a small town.

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  • 1913
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    In the Bishop's Carriage

    In the Bishop's Carriage

    1 1913 HD

    A lost film. A successful stage actress with a hidden past as a criminal is kept on the path of righteousness by a benefactor.

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  • 1922
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    Too Much Business

    Too Much Business

    1 1922 HD

    Through sheer bluff Rodney Marvin ( Edward Everett Horton ) gets a job on a newspaper; becomes editor Matt Hayward's ( James Corrigan ) partner; and...

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  • 1915
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    Mixed Wires

    Mixed Wires

    1 1915 HD

    Insurance adjuster John Smith leaves for a nearby town to adjust a loss. He tells Mrs. Smith that he will be home in a few days. Traveling salesman...

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  • 1915
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    The Jilt

    The Jilt

    1 1915 HD

    Roy Norman and Marie Thompson are betrothed. However, a friend of Roy's, Allan Boyd, arrives and he and Marie are mutually attracted to each other....

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  • 1915
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    Comrades Three

    Comrades Three

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1915
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    Detective Blinn

    Detective Blinn

    1 1915 HD

    The intrepid Detective Blinn investigates a series of baffling jewel thefts targeting wealthy women.

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  • 1915
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    The Deception

    The Deception

    1 1915 HD

    Discovering the day before her marriage that her fiancé is already married Violet Day has a breakdown. To recover her physician, Dr. King...

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  • 1915
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    Wait and See

    Wait and See

    1 1915 HD

    Young Beth Manners ekes out a living painting china. One day she finds a shoe that had been lost by the wealthy Rodney Norton’s valet. When he...

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  • 1915
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    The Zaca Lake Mystery

    The Zaca Lake Mystery

    1 1915 HD

    After Outlaw Slippery Joe robs a miner and his daughter, a sheriff pursues him. While on the outlaw’s trail, the sheriff finds the miner's...

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  • 1915
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    The High Cost of Flirting

    The High Cost of Flirting

    1 1915 HD

    Ethel Dunne and Jack Blakeney are sweethearts, despite the objections of Ethel's father. Mr. Dunne has just admonished the young couple when he is...

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  • 1915
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    By Whose Hand?

    By Whose Hand?

    1 1915 HD

    Chester Rowe commits a robbery and murder, then flees to the mountains where he meets and falls in love with Lottie Toby. Lottie's father receives...

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  • 1915
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    His Obligation

    His Obligation

    1 1915 HD

    Young Mary Lehner is deceived and abandoned by Ralph Moore, a manipulative social climber. Mary, daughter of a blacksmith, falls for Moore while he's...

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  • 1915
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    The Guiding Light

    The Guiding Light

    1 1915 HD

    The secluded life of sturdy young lighthouse-keeper Robert and his wife Anna is interrupted by a visit from a stranger, Harry Nelson, a sportsman and...

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  • 1915
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    The Resolve

    The Resolve

    1 1915 HD

    Steven Brooks, a young man who finds himself entangled in a complicated situation involving his wife, Mrs. Steven Brooks, and another woman named...

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  • 1915
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    Reprisal

    Reprisal

    1 1915 HD

    A maid in the politician's household is bribed to call on the young man late at night, for the purpose of establishing a scandal which he is to be...

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  • 1915
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    The Greater Strength

    The Greater Strength

    1 1915 HD

    After accidentally injuring a friend in a wrestling match and swearing off violence of any kind, Dr. Hart becomes the physician at Big Creek Mines....

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  • 1915
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    The Broken Window

    The Broken Window

    1 1915 HD

    A group of boys are playing baseball on a playground, and one of them hits the ball over the fence, breaking the window of a house belonging to a...

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  • 1915
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    One Summer's Sequel

    One Summer's Sequel

    1 1915 HD

    Mary, a farmer's daughter in New England. The summer boarders who had been staying at her family's farm have departed, but two of them, Lloyd Norman...

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  • 1915
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    Wife Wanted

    Wife Wanted

    1 1915 HD

    Andy is searching for a woman whose photo he found in an envelope with the challenge "Find me." Meanwhile, J.D.P. Moore and his daughter, Ruth, are...

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  • 1915
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    The Castle Ranch

    The Castle Ranch

    1 1915 HD

    Rancher Algy discovers oil on his property and outsmarts a land shark named Todd who tries to buy the land back at a lower price after learning of...

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  • 1915
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    The Wishing Stone

    The Wishing Stone

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1915
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    The Problem

    The Problem

    1 1915 HD

    Fred Rees proposes to Edith Shanlon, contingent on her mother's approval, which is initially denied due to the mother's desire for a wealthy match. A...

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  • 1915
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    His Brother's Debt

    His Brother's Debt

    1 1915 HD

    After his brother's death, Arnold Downs, to save the reputation of his brother's sweetheart, Clara Myers, marries her, though he is in love with Sada...

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  • 1915
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    Reformation

    Reformation

    1 1915 HD

    Jimmie and Molly are a pair of sibling thieves-he a burglar, she a shoplifter. When Jimmie is arrested after a bungled job, he advises Molly to move...

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  • 1915
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    Ancestry

    Ancestry

    1 1915 HD

    After the Duke of Lorenzo discovers the Duchess with her lover, Count Riccardo the men duel leading the Duke’s 20-year banishment. During that...

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  • 1915
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    The Truth of Fiction

    The Truth of Fiction

    1 1915 HD

    Following a cattle roundup, rancher Burton provides a holiday for his cowboys. During the celebrations, they entertain Margaret with daring feats of...

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  • 1915
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    The Derelict

    The Derelict

    1 1915 HD

    Within earshot of her fiancé Leo Holmes and his friend Bruce Morgan Louise Wilke says she could never marry a man who was a drunkard. Morgan,...

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  • 1915
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    The Decision

    The Decision

    1 1915 HD

    Ida Price has been cheated out of her share in her father's estate by her cousin Charles. She puts the appeal of the case in the hands of Judge Clark...

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  • 1915
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    Saints and Sinners

    Saints and Sinners

    1 1915 HD

    In a village where appearances reigned, a wealthy woman, known as "The Saint," presided from her grand estate, her charity a public spectacle. She...

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  • 1915
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    Justified

    Justified

    1 1915 HD

    Tom Allen, a hardworking young miner. He cautions his wife, Beatrice, about the presence of a "worthless chap" named Joe Hills, who frequently...

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  • 1927
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    The Gay Old Bird

    The Gay Old Bird

    1 1927 HD

    A maid is forced to take the place of the lady of the house when she is temporarily incapacitated.

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  • 1919
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    Life's a Funny Proposition

    Life's a Funny Proposition

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1914
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    Damaged Goods

    Damaged Goods

    1 1914 HD

    "Damaged Goods" pictures the terrible consequences of vice and the physical ruin that follows the abuse of moral law. It is a stirring plea for a...

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