21 September 1910 Drama, History, Romance 12 mins
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest made him swear an oath to leave vengeance to God, however.
Watch the official The Oath and the Man 1910 trailer in HD below.
Henry B. Walthall as Henri Prevost
Florence Barker as Madame Prevost
W. Chrystie Miller as A Priest
Francis J. Grandon as A Nobleman
Jack Pickford as The Messenger
Jeanie Macpherson as Aristocrat
Claire McDowell as Rebel
Gertrude Robinson as Aristocrat
Dorothy West as Aristocrat
Charles West as Aristocrat
United States 21 September 1910
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1910:
29 October 1910
An impressive Vitagraph short, one of many popular firemen-to-the-rescue films of the time.
01 August 1910
A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband.
16 May 1910
An ailing woman is visited by her family doctor. This film was seized by Austrian authorities in 1911, and the fact was announced in the Wiener Zeitung, the Official Journal of Vienna.
26 December 1910
Four good friends are so engrossed with their card game that they are late to pick up their wives at the theatre.
01 August 1910
A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host family in order to repay his gambling debts.
18 March 1910
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster.
08 February 1910
A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be saved?
17 November 1910
A young corporal in the United States Cavalry in the Black Hills is very much in love with a young ranchman's daughter who lives near the military barracks.
01 January 1910
A young prince secretly married to a gypsy girl is forced to disclose the fact when his father desires him to marry a wealthy girl.
29 July 1910
John Gary, a hotel owner, who wants to revitalize his business. After reading about a reported mermaid sighting, he has his daughter Ethel pose as a mermaid and gets a newspaper reporter to witness and photograph the mermaid.
31 March 1910
A young bride wonders at her husband's frequent absences. Suspicion mounts. What can the young man find more alluring than she, herself?
25 September 1910
A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge, declares to a council of elders that the girl and her mother are witches.
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