James Neill
James Neill (September 29, 1860 – March 16, 1931) was an American stage actor and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 113 films between 1913 and 1930.
His wife, and frequent costar on stage and screen, was Edythe Chapman.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.261 |
| Birthday | 1860-09-29 |
| Place of Birth | Savannah, Georgia, USA |
| Also Known As | James Neil, James F. Neill, |
1922
Manslaughter
5.5/13
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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Manslaughter
1917
The Bottle Imp
0/0
Lopaka, a poor Hawaiian fisherman, falls in love with Kokua, a young girl of royal blood. Her father refuses to let him marry her, though, unless Lopa...
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The Bottle Imp
1914
Ready Money
0/0
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York.
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Ready Money
1922
The Heart Specialist
9/1
Because he believes that romance is dead, the city editor wants to can the "advice to the lovelorn" column. Rosalie Beckwith, the column's author, nat...
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The Heart Specialist
1918
We Can't Have Everything
0/0
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But t...
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We Can't Have Everything
1914
Discord and Harmony
0/0
Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing a...
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Discord and Harmony
1918
Too Many Millions
0/0
Walsingham Van Dorn has a fancy name but no money until he inherits 40 million dollars from a pair of wealthy, but wicked, uncles.
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Too Many Millions
1913
The Heart of a Cracksman
0/0
Carlton, disapproving of his dissipated son and the latter's scheming wife, on his death-bed makes his will in favor of his devoted niece, Marcia. Hea...
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The Heart of a Cracksman
1913
The Cracksman's Reformation
0/0
Dorothy informs the cracksman that when he has finally renounced his life of thieving he may return to her and claim her. The cracksman resolves to be...
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The Cracksman's Reformation
1913
Cross Purposes
0/0
Cleo drops her bonnet while sitting on the wall. Young Wally picks it up; their eyes meet and the old, old tale follows.
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Cross Purposes
1914
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
0/0
Wally and the girl are in love. The rich broker covets the girl, but is rejected. The broker bids the father good-bye just as the latter receives a te...
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Whoso Diggeth a Pit
1921
A Voice in the Dark
8/1
The solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man.
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A Voice in the Dark
1916
To Have and to Hold
0/0
Lady Jocelyn, a favorite in the court of England's King James, escapes a forced marriage to the hated Lord Carnal by fleeing to American colonies. The...
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To Have and to Hold
1916
The House with the Golden Windows
0/0
Tom Wells is dissatisfied with his lot in life. Wondering aloud whether he'd be happier if things were different, he soon gets his chance to find out....
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The House with the Golden Windows
1917
The Prison Without Walls
0/0
Helen Ainsworth, a young philanthropist, who is interested in a prison reform movement, is engaged to Norman Morris, administrator of the Ainsworth mi...
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The Prison Without Walls
1918
The Whispering Chorus
6.4/14
John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. Du...
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The Whispering Chorus
1917
Those Without Sin
0/0
Melaine is captured by a northern soldier while she is carrying secret southern messages. She falls into the hands of her father's former superior who...
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Those Without Sin
1918
Less Than Kin
0/0
Lewis Vickers accidentally kills a man and goes to Central America. Here he meets Robert Lee, who bears a remarkable resemblance to him. Lee is a wort...
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Less Than Kin
1919
The Secret Garden
10/1
A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's estate....
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The Secret Garden
1928
Love Hungry
8/1
Discouraged chorus girl is torn between a rich man and all he can offer and a starving artist which is where her heart truly lies.
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Love Hungry
1930
Only the Brave
7/2
Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to g...
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Only the Brave
1915
The Goose Girl
0/0
Count Von Herbeck, the chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein, is married but keeps the fact secret on account of his high ambitions. His wife, dy...
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The Goose Girl
1917
The Black Wolf
0/0
In the Spanish Mountains, the Black Wolf, a bandit, reigns at the head of his band, known as "The Charcoal Burners."
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The Black Wolf
1929
The Idle Rich
6.6/5
Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard n...
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The Idle Rich
1930
Shooting Straight
6.25/4
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
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Shooting Straight
1915
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
0/0
"Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter of Russia, whose incognito is Mr. Grex, an English...
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Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
1923
The World's Applause
9/1
Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted artist Robert Townsend (Menjou). Robert is married...
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The World's Applause
1916
The Ragamuffin
0/0
In planning to break into the house of the wealthy Bob Van Dyke, Jenny's stepfather decides that his stepdaughter should do most of the dirty work, an...
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The Ragamuffin
1920
The Paliser Case
8/1
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, thr...
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The Paliser Case
1916
For the Defense
0/0
Two playboys stumble drunkenly home, where the owner falls asleep and the other attacks the maid. The butler intervenes and a fight results in the dea...
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For the Defense
1922
Her Husband’s Trademark
10/1
James Berkeley (who wants to get rich) and Allan Franklin (determined to be a great engineer) are rivals for the hand of Lois Miller. Berkeley marries...
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Her Husband’s Trademark
1915
The Warrens of Virginia
0/0
As the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agat...
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The Warrens of Virginia
1927
The King of Kings
6.4/68
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywoo...
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The King of Kings
1916
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
0/0
Olga Nelson, a Swedish maidservant, working at a boarding house that caters to college students, is particularly fond of one of them, wealthy Tom Gord...
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The Thousand-Dollar Husband
1922
Saturday Night
5.9/5
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class diff...
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Saturday Night
1915
The Cheat
5.986/73
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to repla...
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The Cheat
1914
Where the Trail Divides
0/0
Col. Landers adopts two children, "How," an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an Indian uprising. When the children are grown, How pr...
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Where the Trail Divides
1920
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
10/1
An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morgan's raiders. He learns his real identity when he r...
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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
1923
Nobody's Money
8/1
Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real person when the book is a huge success. Ailing literary...
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Nobody's Money
1914
Cameo Kirby
0/0
Cameo Kirby is a 1914 American drama silent film directed by Oscar Apfel and written by Clara Beranger and William C. deMille. The film stars Dustin F...
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Cameo Kirby
The Lonely Road
8/1
Betty Austin gives up her dream of going to the city and marries Warren Wade, but she sadly finds him selfish and insistent on her acting like a "clin...
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The Lonely Road
1920
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
9/1
Most of the scenes are laid in a parrot-and-monkey country in South America, a land where "it is always after dinner." The Llano Kid, a Texas bad man,...
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A Double-Dyed Deceiver
1925
Thank You
4.75/4
Young Kenneth Jamieson's millionaire father, fed up with his son's wild escapades, sends him to stay on a chicken farm in the small village of Dedham....
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Thank You
1916
Joan the Woman
5.654/26
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
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Joan the Woman
1917
The Little American
6.3/21
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality fir...
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The Little American
1918
Say! Young Fellow
0/0
A lost film. "The Young Fellow"(Fairbanks), has recently been hired as a cub newspaper reporter for the New York Herald. His editor tasks him with une...
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Say! Young Fellow
1914
The Rose of the Rancho
4/1
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off...
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The Rose of the Rancho
1916
The Lash
0/0
A silent drama film directed by James Young
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The Lash
1916
Oliver Twist
0/0
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagi...
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Oliver Twist
1919
Don't Change Your Husband
6.8/18
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries tw...
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Don't Change Your Husband
1914
Richelieu
0/0
Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews.
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Richelieu
1925
Any Woman
7/1
When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has lost all his money. She must get a job to help supp...
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Any Woman
1919
Her Kingdom of Dreams
7/1
A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl.
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Her Kingdom of Dreams
1923
The Thrill Chaser
6.5/2
In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills a...
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The Thrill Chaser
1923
The Ten Commandments
6.484/94
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden cal...
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The Ten Commandments
1925
New Brooms
7/1
Thomas Bates Sr. (Robert McWade) takes his broom manufacturing business very seriously, and his idle son, Tom Jr. (Neil Hamilton), calls him a grouch....
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New Brooms
1928
The Border Patrol
10/1
Texas Ranger Bill Storm is sent to El Paso to ferret out a gang of counterfeiters thought to be working there and, on the way, gives a ride to New Yor...
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The Border Patrol
1915
The Woman
0/0
William C. DeMille adapted his screenplay for The Woman on the stage play by DeMille's father Henry and David Belasco. The story is set in Washington...
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The Woman
1915
The Case of Becky
0/0
When a young girl is placed under hypnotism, it's discovered that she has a split personality.
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The Case of Becky
1917
Forbidden Paths
0/0
Sato (Sessue Hayakawa) faithfully works for importer James Thornton (James Neill). When the old man dies, he leaves his daughter Mildred (Vivian Marti...
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Forbidden Paths
1917
The Girl at Home
0/0
Jimmie Dexter is on his way to college when his mother discovers that her stocks have stopped paying dividends. Jean Hilton, who has always loved Jimm...
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The Girl at Home
1917
The Devil Stone
0/0
Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy American Silas Martin marries her, then sets her u...
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The Devil Stone
1916
The Dream Girl
0/0
The father of San Francisco waif Meg runs an illegal liquor club and supports "English" Hal in scheme to blackmail a wealthy girl. Meg is put on proba...
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The Dream Girl
1918
The Widow's Might
10/1
Dick Tavish, a young New Yorker, decides that there is money in cows, and he buys a western ranch. When the novelty has worn off he decided there is m...
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The Widow's Might
1919
Romance and Arabella
9/1
Romance and Arabella is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Walter Edwards and starring Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, and Mon...
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Romance and Arabella
1919
Everywoman
8/1
Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne.
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Everywoman
1921
Dangerous Curve Ahead
9/1
Engaged to Harley Jones, fickle Phoebe Mabee flirts with Anson Newton. She and Harley, as a result, break their engagement, but within six months they...
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Dangerous Curve Ahead
1916
Maria Rosa
0/0
Ramon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill fisherman Pedro, so Andreas goes to jail for ten year...
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Maria Rosa
1924
A Man's Mate
8/1
Paul Bonard an artist, loses his memory when he receives a blow on the head from one of two apaches fighting over Wildcat, a sultry stepper in a cafe....
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A Man's Mate
1914
The Circus Man
0/0
David Jenison, accused of a crime which he did not commit, escapes his guards and joins a traveling circus.
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The Circus Man
1919
Fires of Faith
10/1
The story of the Salvation Army, told through the tale of two men and two women who serve in the First World War.
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Fires of Faith
1918
Women's Weapons
1/1
The children of a a novelist, Nicholas, contract scarlet fever. His wife Anne stays in the house to take care of them, but the house is quarantined by...
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Women's Weapons
1917
On the Level
0/0
Rustler Pete Sontag kidnaps Merlin Warner after he kills her father. Pete, a drug smuggler who uses his saloon as a front, coerces Merlin though beati...
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On the Level
1917
A School for Husbands
0/0
Sensible Betty Manners is the wife of the frivolous John Manners. John fritters away his time playing the horses rather than paying attention to his j...
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A School for Husbands
1917
Betty to the Rescue
0/0
Henry Sherwin is led to believe by mine expert James Fleming that the mine he invested all his money in is valueless, though Fleming has discovered a...
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Betty to the Rescue
1916
A Gutter Magdalene
0/0
Maida Carrington goes to the city with gambler Jack Morgan but flees after witnessing him stealing money from Steve Boyce. Joining the Salvation Army,...
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A Gutter Magdalene
1916
Tennessee's Pardner
0/0
When a cowpoke steps into a fight and saves the life of a disreputable gambler, the gambler decides to reciprocate by revealing to his new-found frien...
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Tennessee's Pardner
1917
What Money Can't Buy
10/1
Madison Hale, a wealthy American financier, is bidding against Govrian Texler, the financial advisor to the King Stephen III of Maritizia, for the con...
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What Money Can't Buy
1922
Our Leading Citizen
9/1
Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.
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Our Leading Citizen
1918
The Way of a Man with a Maid
7/1
When shipping clerk Arthur McArney falls in love with pretty stenographer Elsa Owenson, he finds himself in stiff competition with a fat but wealthy b...
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The Way of a Man with a Maid
1919
Peg o' My Heart
10/1
"Peg" O'Connell, a cheerful, unrefined Irish girl from a fishing village, moves in with her wealthy, haughty aunt, Mrs. Chichester, in England to sati...
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Peg o' My Heart
1926
A Desperate Moment
7/1
Virginia Dean enjoys a yachting trip with her father. She falls in love with the captain of the boat, John Reynolds. A gang of criminals has stowed aw...
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A Desperate Moment
1919
Men, Women, and Money
9/1
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Men, Women, and Money
1918
Sandy
0/0
A Scots-Irish lad comes to America hoping to find his fortune. On the sea voyage he meets and falls for a lovely young girl, but they are parted on ar...
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Sandy
1917
The Trouble Buster
0/0
Soon after arriving in the U.S., Romanian immigrant Franz Libelt dies, leaving his daughter Michelna an orphan. The girl is befriended by newsboy Blac...
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The Trouble Buster
1917
The Ghost House
0/0
The old Atwell home is said to be haunted, and Jeremy Foster, the gardener--who is actually the head of a band of thieves that use the house for a hid...
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The Ghost House
1922
Dusk to Dawn
8/1
A young woman's split personality creates a complicated life.
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Dusk to Dawn
1919
A Daughter of the Wolf
10/1
A fur smuggler's daughter asks to accompany him on his trip to the US to sell his furs. She falls for Robert, a young man who has recently been dumped...
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A Daughter of the Wolf
1918
Jules of the Strong Heart
0/0
Jules Lemaire, a happy-go-lucky French-Canadian lumberman, arrives at the Nemo lumber camp carrying a baby. His love for the child wins him the respec...
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Jules of the Strong Heart
1918
A Petticoat Pilot
0/0
When the third partner in their small Cape Cod trading business dies, Shad Gould and Zoeth Hamilton adopt his little daughter Mary-'Gusta. After sever...
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