04 October 1912 15 mins
Here with the Edison Company -- most notably Charles Ogle as the usurer -- we see a 'typical' case of the victims of usury. Although offered as a 'realistic' view of the effects of usury, it veers frequently into melodrama.
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Walter Edwin as Thomas Jenks
Gertrude McCoy as Mrs. Thomas Jenks
Edna May Weick as The Jenks' Little Girl
Charles Ogle as Manager of the Loan Office
Louise Sydmeth as The 'Bawler-Out'
Robert Brower as The Enlightened Employer
United States 04 October 1912
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1912:
07 August 1912
SILAS WILSON realizes that his business is being run to the ground, and that he cannot longer compete with the newer foundries unless he makes radical changes in his methods and employees.
12 June 1912
Disregarding the sanctity of "Song Bird's" feelings, John Strong, a young surveyor in the pioneer forests of the west, makes love to the Indian maiden whenever he chances to meet her, until she longs and looks for his coming and going, and finds that he has made himself part of her life.
23 October 1912
Naughty children steal an anatomy-class papier-mâché skeleton and use it to play pranks on people around town.
02 September 1912
Two girls fall in love with the same man. Out motoring one day they are thrown from the machine and carried to the hospital.
21 October 1912
Out in the farm-lands near Portland, the Widow Walters lives with her daughter Ethel. As far as affections are concerned, those of the widow are confined to her daughter, until Squire Lang, a fat old widower, with his son Harry, moves onto the adjoining farm.
09 March 1912
A production company holds a public competition for film ideas. The winning letter tells of a young woman's lost love in the 1840's.
26 February 1912
Two businessmen need to hire a stenographer, but their wives get suspicious when they notice a parade of beautiful young women entering and leaving their husbands' office.
11 February 1912
The inimitable Billy Quirk needs a wife in order to inherit his vociferous western uncle's fortune. Billy borrows his friend's wife.
14 October 1912
Veteran Warner and old gardener Burns vie for the hand of Widow Simpson, and the gardener steals the former's uniform and joins in the ranks of a parade, pursued by his rival.
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