17 December 1912 Fantasy, Drama 10 mins
A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself is experiencing the sordid experiences of being destitute, the old man sees the error of his ways and becomes suddenly charitable.
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Francis X. Bushman Jr. as The Grouch
Helen Dunbar as The Widow
Bryant Washburn as The Rent Collector
Howard Missimer as The Butler
Margaret Steppling as The Child
Harry Cashman as 1st Clubman
Frank Dayton as 2nd Clubman
Whitney Raymond as The Bellboy
United States 17 December 1912
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1912:
07 May 1912
Alkali is considered the ranch seamstress by the boys on Hard-Up, and consequently has to sew buttons on coats and do other sewing stunts that finally wear on his nerves and decide him on the matrimony thing.
19 July 1912
Alice Durand, after weeks of discouragement, reads the following advertisement in the New York Herald: "Governess wanted.
26 December 1912
A comedy in which a man secretly has his pustules removed. His secrecy leads his wife to believe that he is cheating.
13 August 1912
Esmeralda Foster, an attractive girl, is very much impressed with Duncan Miller, a crafty country swain, who makes love to Esmeralda because of her father's wealth.
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.
16 September 1912
Young Ruth goes against her father's will and leaves to live with engineer Edvin Holm. Their life together will prove difficult.
04 April 1912
The girl was young, pretty, and also a good businesswoman; When her father died she took up the reins of management and ran an orange grove with successful results.
08 October 1912
Everything is arranged by Dick and his college chums to have their sweethearts from the city, with their chaperone, visit them to spend the day.
31 December 1912
This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.
21 May 1912
Silas Croft was a kindly old Englishman who had a farm in South Africa. With him resided his two nieces, whom he had taken from their drunken, worthless father when they were of a tender age.
01 January 1912
An Orthodox rabbi deals with personal tragedies and an increasingly secular world.
20 October 1912
A truncated version of Wilkie Collins' popular mystery story.
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