18 December 1908 Drama 12 mins
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefully out of the courtroom. Later the gypsy follows the judge to his home and plots a vicious revenge on his wife (Florence Lawrence).
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George Gebhardt as Matteo Rettazzi / Policeman
Marion Leonard as Fiammetta, Matteo's Wife
Harry Solter as Judge Mowbray
Florence Lawrence as Mrs. Mowbray
Gladys Egan as The Mowbrays' Daughter
Linda Arvidson as The Maid
Gertrude Robinson as Woman in Court
Mack Sennett as Policeman / Man in Court
United States 18 December 1908
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Silent Hall of Fame has created a Silent Gems Collection of rare and for the first time available films with our stars as well as other silent masterpieces.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
11 November 1908
Two hunters set out on safari with their African guide. They observe zebras, an ostrich, and a hippopotamus, capture a monkey, and camp for the night.
25 July 1908
A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.
30 October 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
15 September 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
10 February 1908
A boy takes pictures of everything, including some embarrassing situations. When he projects the pictures on a wall for everyone to see, his father spanks him and smashes the camera.
16 October 1908
The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful maiden, forgetting his own little sweetheart at home.
08 March 1908
The first scene shows part of Flint's old pirate crew, with one-legged John Silver in the lead. They have discovered the hiding place of Billy Bones, the mate of Flint's ship, the "Walrus," and they send Black Dog, one of the crew, to tip Billy Bones to the "black spot" at the Admiral Ben Bow Inn; but Billy Bones drives Black Dog away, and will have nothing to do with him.
25 August 1908
A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and threatening an eligible bachelor, who reluctantly allows wedding plans to be made.
20 October 1908
John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and is easy prey of a contemptible villain, in the person of Tom Roland, the ubiquitous "other man".
01 August 1908
A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.
13 October 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a barbarian in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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